Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] is a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The adjacent campanile is also interesting and is a combination of Norman and Byzantine work .
2 The Bell 's food is always fresh and is a lot nicer .
3 Today the business holds its head high and is a world leader in its specialized fields .
4 The oldest rock of all is 4600 Ma old and is a silicate type called dunite .
5 Lloyd , who was born in Essex , emigrated to South Africa as an 11-year-old and is a graduate from the same riding academy as Roberts .
6 He has been chairman of the cereals committee since 1985 and is a member of the Yorkshire ( East Riding ) branch .
7 An acidified lake looks very still and clear but is an animal and plant graveyard .
8 It is sometimes a question whether a particular confession is the unaided work of an accused or is a fabrication of a police officer .
9 I pierced the mask of the temporal that is a facade made hideous by the graffiti of desires and I saw behind it the real of human beings , that is , a masterpiece on the wheel of Eternity .
10 He makes training look easy and is a man with a terrific future . ’
11 A decisive break with realist conceptions of the curriculum is long overdue and is a precondition for genuinely pluralist forms of radicalization of the curriculum ( Alvarado and Ferguson , 1983 ; Wexler , 1987 ) .
12 Does he further agree that , sooner or later , the talks will have to develop into meaningful discussions about constitutional change on an all-Ireland basis because the status quo is untenable and is a recipe for continuing conflict ?
13 HCFC22 is not perfect but is a lot better than CFC 11 and 12 .
14 Thus , if the taxpayer created a discretionary trust before 18 March 1986 and is a beneficiary thereunder , the reservation of benefit provisions can not apply .
15 The MINIS system was introduced in 1980 and is a management information system designed to identify resources consumed on specified activities by organizational units .
16 It seems more likely that is a marketing ploy from Heavenly Records to earn airplay and novelty hits for the less successful artists on its roster .
17 pearce is another overrated player — i cant see why he is always prefered for tony — yeah pearce is tough and shoots hard and is a fighting guy — — so what — — dorigo is a much more — international — type — coming forward more often and when in form seems to be a good friend with the ball …
18 The taxpayer was incorporated in Hong Kong on 17 June 1975 and is a subsidiary of another Hong Kong company , HK-TVB Ltd .
19 This shift is proportional to the distance d from Earth : where H is the Hubble constant and is a measure of the rate of expansion of the Universe .
20 It is where is a small constant and is a Chebyshev polynomial of order n defined by In this definition of , is the cut-off pulsatance as before .
21 He is chairman of Emerson Electric and is a director of Anheuser-Busch , Southwestern Bell Corporation , Caterpillar and Baxter International
22 That is comparing like with like and is a sign of the real difference in investment under this Government .
23 He graduated from the University with an LLB in 1950 and is a partner in a solicitors ' practice in Nottingham .
24 He lives in Leeds , is married and is a member of the local indoor Cricket League .
25 It takes twice as long and is a lot more bumpy .
26 Though Xorandor resigns himself to his fate , he tells the children a secret : he has not in fact come from Mars at all but is a member of a race that has been living on Earth for millions of years , communicating over vast distances through radio pulses in binary code .
27 This dichotomy is useful but is an oversimplification ; degree of development as measured for example by income per head or technology utilisation is best described by a continuous scale .
28 It is likewise unimportant whether is a food parallel to or not both because the relation of the lines does not depend upon the relation between the terms that are " in parallel " ( as we say ) , and because the notion that an ideal parallelism is a truly synonymous parallelism has been exploded by the principle of the parallelism of greater precision .
29 In 1988 women 's average gross hourly earnings represented 74.9 per cent of men 's earnings , which is slightly down on the peak of 75.5 per cent in 1977 but is an improvement on the 1985 figure of 73.9 per cent .
30 The other problem is terminological and is a problem familiar to anthropologists .
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